Companion Animals and Us: Exploring the Relationships between People and Pets Book

	List of contributors
1	Introduction	1
Pt. I	History and culture
2	The social significance of pet-keeping among Amazonian Indians	7
3	Motivations for pet-keeping in Ancient Greece and Rome: a preliminary survey	27
4	Hunting and attachment to dogs in the Pre-Modern Period	42
5	Children, 'insects' and play in Japan	61
6	The horse bar mitzvah: a celebratory exploration of the human-animal bond	90
7	Creatures of the unconscious: companion animals as mediators	108
Pt. II	The nature of the relationship
8	Companion animals and human health: physical and cardiovascular influences	125
9	Personality research on pets and their owners: conceptual issues and review	143
10	Love of pets and love of people	168
Pt. III	Pets, families and interactions
11	The influence of current relationships upon pet animal acquisition	189
12	Pets in the network of family relationships: an empirical study	209
13	The meaning of companion animals: qualitative analysis of the life histories of elderly cat and dog owners	237
14	Human-cat interactions: relationships with, and breed differences between, non-pedigree, Persian and Siamese cats	257
Pt. IV	Welfare and ethics
15	Secondary victimization in companion animal abuse: the owner's perspective	275
16	Veterinary dilemmas: ambiguity and ambivalence in human-animal interaction	292
17	Rethinking bestiality: towards a concept of interspecies sexual assault	313
	Index	332